friday random 10

Last week. This week:

1. “Pop Song ’89” by R.E.M., guessed by Eric B.
   Should we talk about the government?
2. “I Feel Free” by Cream, guessed by Eric B.
   I can walk down the street, there’s no one there
3. “Can You Picture That?” by Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, guessed by Occupant
   I wanna be your lifetime friend
4. “Young at Heart” by Frank Sinatra, guessed Occupant
   You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
5. “Mansion on the Hill” by Crooked Fingers (orig. Bruce Springsteen)
   Me and my sister, we’d hide out in the tall corn fields
6. “Freakshow” by Ani DiFranco, guessed by Glen
   There’s an art to the laughter, there’s a science
7. “Epistle to Dippy” by Donovan, guessed by Kim
   I can see I had your fun
8. “Ain’t Got No / I Got Life” by Nina Simone
   Why am I alive anyway?
9. “One” by U2, guessed by Eric B.
   Have you come to raise the dead?
10. “Insane in the Brain” by the Connells (orig. Cypress Hill), guessed by Kim
    It’s all over when I go out drinkin’

Same as it ever was. Good luck!

Last week. This week:

1. “Brick” by Ben Folds Five, guessed by Eric B.
   She is balled up on the couch
2. “Surrender” by Cheap Trick, guessed by Clayton
   Whatever happened to all this season’s losers of the year?
3. “Trying to Pull Myself Away” by Glen Hansard
   Bang bang down on the piano ’til I smash the keys
4. “Alleluia” by Dar Williams
   It’s like the worst Elvis film I’ve ever seen
5. “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” by Peter, Paul & Mary (orig. Bob Dylan), guessed by Eric B.
   You could have done better but I don’t mind
6. “Shake Your Booty” by Public Enemy, guessed by Eric B.
   Throw your hands in the air then be Swayze
7. “Soft Shoulder” by Ani DiFranco
   And your voice sang the way my heart would sing
8. “Money” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
   Now, ain’t those amazing folks that Bill is lucky to know?
9. “Bowie” by Flight of the Conchords
   I’m jamming out with the Mick Jaggernauts
10. “A Very Unlikely Occurrence” by MC Frontalot
    I take ish with the interstitial liquid bliss

You might almost be tempted to see some kind of meme-like pattern in all of this.

As always, guess the singer and song, win no prize! Good luck!

Last week. This week:

1. “Misery Is the River of the World” by Tom Waits
   You can drive out nature with a pitchfork
2. “Leave Me Here” by Hem
   But love seemed sweeter and sure in the light of the day
3. “Cold Turkey” by John Lennon, guessed by Eric B.
   Can’t see no future, can’t see no sky
4. “Click Click Click Click” by Bishop Allen
   But when I stood next to her brother for the photograph, he was laughing
5. “Amazing Journey” by the Who, guessed by Betty
   He’s in a quiet vibration land
6. “The Pointless, Yet Poignant Crisis of a Co-Ed” by Dar Williams
   I’m not a left-wing rhetoric mobilizing force of one
7. “Hollow” by Heather Nova
   I found a photograph of how we used to feel
8. “I Hate Myself for Loving You” by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, guessed by Eric B.
   I won’t be as angry ’bout the hell you put me through
9. “Heartbreak Express” by Dolly Parton
   The only thing that’s gonna keep me warm now is my overcoat
10. “Dear Prudence” by the Beatles, guessed by Eric B.
    So let me see you smile again

Guess the lyric, win no prize! And, as always, good luck!

Last week. This week:

1. “In the Jailhouse Now” by the Soggy Bottom Boys, guessed by Kim
   He thought he was the smartest guy in town
2. “Survive” by David Bowie, guessed by Occupant
   I should have been a wiser kind of guy
3. “The Letter” by Joe Cocker (orig. the Box Tops), guessed by Eric B.
   I ain’t got time to take a fast train
4. “Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall” by Simon and Garfunkel, guessed by Occupant
   And I wander in the night without direction
5. Then you take the one thing we thought we’d never lose
6. “Bottom of the World” by Tom Waits, guessed by Eric B.
   The moon’s the color of a coffee stain
7. “Good Time Music” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
   Yes it’s back on the radio
8. “Mercy of the Fallen” by Dar Williams
   I got lost in my travels
9. “Do You Realize?” by the Flaming Lips, guessed by Eric B.
   It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
10. “Failsafe” by the New Pornographers
    We both had a hand in it

Good luck as always!

Last week. This week:

1. “Independence Day” by Ani DiFranco
   So many sheep I quit counting
2. “Witchcraft” by Frank Sinatra, guessed by Generik
   My heart says yes indeed in me
3. “She’s Got to Be” by Amy Ray
   She’s the one that stills the seas
4. “Hungry Heart” by Bruce Springsteen, guessed by Eric B.
   We took what we had and we ripped it apart
5. “Mountain Kind” by MC Frontalot
   Melt down that calf, I’ma gild my butt
6. “Tweeter and the Monkey Man” by Traveling Wilburys, guessed by Eric B.
   They knew that they found freedom just across the Jersey line
7. “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, guessed by Eric B.
   Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud
8. “Ready to Die” by the Unicorns
   I woke up hungry with hungry cougars surrounding me
9. “Patterns” by Simon & Garfunkel, guessed by Generik
   Like the pieces of a puzzle or a child’s uneven scrawl
10. “Liar” by Rollins Band, guessed by Eric B.
    It haunts you everywhere you go

Same as it ever was. Good luck!